Houston Astros.
Houston Astros, etc.

[Instrumental, although a sample repeats, "Houston Astros."

What happens when you take a bunch of rough and tumble baseballers out of their grass stained wool and put 'em inside on a spaceage carpet in tight trippy polyester? The same thing that happens when you take the guitars and drums away from four drunken indie rockers and give them synthesizers, samplers, omnichords and electonic drum pads--Houston Synthetic.

The dance synth sound relates to Houston's many discoteques, prominent there since the seventies proliferation of LSD, through the MDMA (XTC) of the 80s and 90s and on to today's Crystal Meth. The indie rock underpinnings which strip away the polish usually associated with electronica is a shout out to the Colt .45s, the rugged Houston team that became the spacey Astros in the sixties.

If the Killer B's ever go clubbing, or if Andy Pettite and the Rocket ever experiment with homosexuality, we think this number would enhance their experience. --fungo]